Snort. Newton Richard Brekne wrote: > > Phillip L Ford wrote: > > > I'm not familiar with the Steinway Magic Circle. Could you elaborate? > > --- > > Did I say Magic Circle ?? ... actually I think they call it the Circle of Sound, and the way I > have had it described it seems to have Magical qualities... but then who knows ?. Its one of > their reasons that tuning pin bushings are supposed to be a big no no. The bushings are supposed > to interfere with this Circle of Sound. According to the idea, correct me if I am wrong folks, > the energy of the vibrating string runs through sort of a (in a Steinway only mind you) closed > circuit. From the string to the bridge, through the soundboard, into the plate and then the > pinblock, then into the relavant tuning pin and right back down the string. > > Sounds kind of fantastic dont it ?. Course I doubt there is any documentation or proof one way > or the other, but this thread seemed to touch on the idea, so I thought I'd bring it up.... just > for fun.... > > -- > Richard Brekne > RPT, N.P.T.F. > Bergen, Norway > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
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